<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->There are no such words in the English language as 'u' 'thru' or 'daza' and these boards are English only.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm dyslexic and yes I try to make an effort with my spelling and grammer (is that even spelt right?) but sometimes I just cant spell a word and I haven't (thats another word, with or without the 'e'?) got office installed for the spell checker. This is not meant as an excuse for bad spelling I'm just saying don't judge others just because they can not spell, its about the effort they put into trying to spell.
Note: If your not sure on the spelling of a word is a good idea to add an "(sp)" after it so people realise that you know have spelt it wrong but can not find out how to spell it correctly. (spamming this is not a valid excuse either <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
Ah but there's a very clear line between dyslexia and laziness or simply an obstinate refusal to type understandably. The people that drive me crazy are people who can type the line 'omg i thnk ur crazy and u mak no sense wut is ur problem?' and then hit the 'add reply' button without stopping to poke forks in their eyes first. (in order to get the full effect that reading their post has on people)
aonomusDedicated NS Mastermind (no need for school)Join Date: 2003-11-26Member: 23605Members, Constellation
edited July 2004
Thats what im getting at, (btw if a op reads this, please lock it IF IT GETS OUT OF HAND cause some people take it too personally, and have not read the first line) people too lazy to bother with it, even though they know that they have horrid spelling skills and could confuse people, not insulting people who make occasional mistakes, so don't flame, as I asked.
Edit starts here: In response to the flaming about the European comment, I usually see slight variations in words that may be considered a spelling mistake, I'm not insulting anyone, to make that clear.
Also, I think a lot (see, two words) of people do make honest mistakes, but it isn't an excuse not to quickly scan it for errors, no need to do an in depth proofread/spellcheck like it was a term paper, just so that people can understand it.
And I live in Canada, so I don't think the US is superior to any country in regards to 'who is better'.
<!--QuoteBegin-BobTheJanitor+Jul 13 2004, 01:42 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BobTheJanitor @ Jul 13 2004, 01:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The only 'ur' I know of is a city in ancient babylon. If I see someone mention 'ur' I will assume they're talking about this city where Abraham was born, and that they want to talk about ancient biblical history.
Seriously, if I ever see someone typing 'u' or 'ur' or any other witless contraction, something inside me snaps. Try as I might, I tend to assume that the person is an idiot, and to treat anything else they type with less respect than if they had simply pressed a few more keys. It doesn't take that much more effort, people. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> i feel your pain
my spelling is so bad spell check cannt make heads or tails of most of the words i cannt spell.
to make matters worse i lived in two contrys (been to more schools than i can remeber) and tend to place words in the wrong order.
sometimes it takes me more than 5 min to make a post (trying to pick the right words and trying to make sure it makes some sence)
its not good for me because i cannt say what i mean well and its not for you trying to understand.
but i try...
now <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo--> grammer nazi <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
jk... i understand your pain
edit...
is there a "i talk. it types" program that would work for posting on the forums? oh wate never mind... i forgot distibuting programs is against the rules here.
I'm usually somewhat of a grammar Nazi. I know my spelling and grammar is far from perfect, but i don't think anyone can say i'm incoherent. Well, at least when sober, that is.
But i have to agree with the Nazis on this one. A forum isn't like IRC or some IM program. You have all the time you need to type, lay out, spell check and post each post that you make. Again, as many people have said, i feel this only applies to those of us who have grown up speaking English as a first language, for quite obvious reasons.
The thing that bugs me more, however, is not simple typos or poor spelling, but those whom are quite evidently too lazy to type "you" as opposed to "u". I mean, come on, will 3 letters kill you? I mean, heaven forbid using that keyboard full of all the letters you can imagine being <i>put to use</i>!
My biggest peeve with "txt speak" is the phrase "ur". Ok, so 2 letters there, "u" and "r", phonetically "you" and "are". When these letters are used independantly by lazy bastards they replace the aformentioned words. But put them together and you get "your", for some bizarre reason. I read it and see "ur" as "you are", but the grammatically <span style='color:white'>Yet another victim to Nems 'Get another damn swearword!' campaign.</span> people that use it see it as a fitting replacement for "you're" and "your".
"sms speak" was created because when typing an sms on a cell phone you have either little time or little space to convey your message, or both, and it's perfectly acceptable in that situation to use it. But this is a forum where you have unlimited time to make your post and you have nigh-on unlimited space to write your message. Please, for the love of all that is holy, <b>use it</b>.
Posts with aformentioned "typos" will get simply skipped, ignored, tortured, burned, and scattered all along the dirty coasts of your nearest dirty coasts (probably in a unholy fashion).
Can you explain that <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo--> I don't get it.
Some time ago, a suggestion was posted along the lines that there ought to be a "scorp.ian" that "ho.vars without flapping" This was, of course, so ridiculous that it immediately became a catch phrase, eventually progressing far enough to merit its own emoticon.
That aside, atrocious spelling and grammar, as well as poorly thought out posts and malformed sentences are a well documented phenomenon in gaming societies, defined explicitly by John Gabriel's <a href='http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-03-19' target='_blank'>Greater Internet ******* Theory.</a>
Moreover, it seems that the greater the popularity of any game, the more common they become. Observe the <a href='http://www.battle.net/forums.shtml' target='_blank'>official Blizzard forums.</a>
So as much as you may hate them, their absence would represent an even more tragic occurance.
Aoccdrnig to rseerach at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro
Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr.
The first one was already posted. The second one is there to contradict the first one.
aonomusDedicated NS Mastermind (no need for school)Join Date: 2003-11-26Member: 23605Members, Constellation
/me sighs
Damn the world.... it does NOT hurt to use the extra letters, they put them there for a reason. Honestly they should make the forum respell things like 'teh' or 't3h' to 'the', just for the stupid ones out there....
Nicely put, I'm lost. I seriously struggled to read that, to the point of giving in. And I don't like giving in when reading NS forum posts. Do you know why? Well, it is because all the people on these forums are intelligent human beings, who make valid points whenever they post. They also all check their grammar. They have also worked out how to use the edit button.
It gets annoying. You go to read an interesting topic, then BLAM! Speeling (ha ha) errors all over, no punctuation, or anything. I'm fine on IM's like that, except for paragraphs.. (insert shudder)
I use proper english and my full range of university-level vocabulary because it's what sets me and fellow college students apart from the crowd of high schoolers and younguns, and helps me identify other fellows in my demographic.
And I still hate every single one of you who kept endlessly moaning about my small text.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>I'm writing this sentence small just to annoy you. Like them apples?</span>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Come on, some of the greatest jokes originate from bad grammar. (hovering scorpions, anyone?)<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Mind explaining how that example is in any way related to a great joke? Honestly, I find the whole issue and the constant reminders of it to be pathetic. I appreciate a good laugh as much as anyone, but that thread is not funny. It's like laughing at disabled people. And anyone who does that can, quite frankly, get bent.
Oh, and a bad joke (which is what that thread has become) doesn't become more fun just because you repeat it. Try going to the Swirve Utopia forums and suggest "Frigates" (with a wink) to be implemented in the B&S forum. If you don't get banned, you'll at least be unable to find the thread soon enough.
<!--QuoteBegin-Swift Idiot+Jul 14 2004, 12:13 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swift Idiot @ Jul 14 2004, 12:13 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> And I still hate every single one of you who kept endlessly moaning about my small text.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>I'm writing this sentence small just to annoy you. Like them apples?</span> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Actually, I would say that your small text was more annoying than most people's bad spelling/grammar. That sentence wasn't annoying, but a whole paragraph of it was.
I assume that people with some simple spelling/grammar mistakes made a genuine mistake and/or use English as a second Language. However, one post a few weeks back was typed like this: "tHaTz reTArDeD SUYF". That made me snap to a certain extent... it actually takes more effort to press shift for every other letter than it does to just press shift for capitals where they belong. Grade 1 or 2 grammar if I remember correctly....
Here's an example of a post that falls into the "retarded" category (a random thread from the CS forums): <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yo dawg dat was a bad idea yall. you gotta sit back and chill. dat move was not smooth. werd!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I would translate this into English, but frankly I have no clue what he's trying to say, if anything. I checked to see if it related to any of the previous posts, but no, it didn't. A second random thread: <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->plz post some tomato websites u can get them on for ppl that r interested
thnx<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> This was in regard to getting free CS CD keys. First of all, how many times do people have to be told not to post illegal stuff on game forums? Secondly, what, may I ask, is a "tomato website". Thirdly... get a freakin dictionary. Either that, or basic grade 1 English skills.
This isn't designed to make fun of CS players (aside from the ones who made these posts), just that I didn't want to post anything from the NS forums because the posts I found were too recognizable.
Edit: Removed name of second poster, despite the fact that the name itself was misspelled.
must be because i'm left handed (left handed people are the only ones their right mind anyway. for thouse that don't know the right half of the brain controls the left side of the body and the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body. get the joke?).
<!--QuoteBegin-i'm lost+Jul 14 2004, 01:49 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (i'm lost @ Jul 14 2004, 01:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> crad cniyrrag = a name?
...a simple, mechanical revision of internal characters appears sufficient to confuse the everyday onlooker.
Woa. I read it fluently till that sentence, then was totally thrown by "mechanical revision of internal characters". Wierd stuff, psychology.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Maverick102 Who cares about spelling, If you can make it out it's fine <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What if some people can make it out, and some people can't? The whole POINT of having a language is so that EVERYONE can use it and understand it. If ppl understood vague gestures and drawings perfectly, this post would be a few random squiggles of coloured lines, possibly with some waving and random thrusts.
IMO, it's simply unpatriotic to shorten and abbreviate words at an excessive level. In George Orwell's distopian novel "1984", there is a new language created ("Newspeak") that shortens all words and removes all negatives. ("bad" becomes "nogod", awful becomes "doublenogoodplus".) This is understandable, (despite not actually being an abreviation,) but it murders the language.
We would not like to live in a society where we could not express ourselves in the way we can now, so why degenerate the language and so lead to that eventual scenario.
fanaticThis post has been edited.Join Date: 2003-07-23Member: 18377Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue
edited July 2004
<!--QuoteBegin-Status Quo+Jul 14 2004, 11:52 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Status Quo @ Jul 14 2004, 11:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Come on, some of the greatest jokes originate from bad grammar. (hovering scorpions, anyone?)<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Mind explaining how that example is in any way related to a great joke? Honestly, I find the whole issue and the constant reminders of it to be pathetic. I appreciate a good laugh as much as anyone, but that thread is not funny. It's like laughing at disabled people. And anyone who does that can, quite frankly, get bent.
Oh, and a bad joke (which is what that thread has become) doesn't become more fun just because you repeat it. Try going to the Swirve Utopia forums and suggest "Frigates" (with a wink) to be implemented in the B&S forum. If you don't get banned, you'll at least be unable to find the thread soon enough. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Oh noes, it's a humour feinschmecker! I am your humble servant, oh great lord of all that is funny! Ever thought of the idea that I may have just used it as an example, since that's a rather famous joke?
It's amazing how everyone (well except mr. feinschmecker over there) fails to see that this entire topic is a joke. Especially considering that every single forum on the face of the Internet has at least one of these, and yet it does nothing to improve the general language skill on these forums.
Let people be idiots if they want to, it's much easier to write off whatever they have to say (which may or may not be sensible) as idiocy that way.
<!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> It's not 'revision' it's 'inversion'. That should be the only clue you need to be able to read it perfectly now. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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And, since I don't believe it was mentioned before: if you spell words using numbers, you got issues.
<a href='http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=thru' target='_blank'>thru</a>
Someone better change their statement about one of those words.
Note: If your not sure on the spelling of a word is a good idea to add an "(sp)" after it so people realise that you know have spelt it wrong but can not find out how to spell it correctly. (spamming this is not a valid excuse either <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
Edit starts here:
In response to the flaming about the European comment, I usually see slight variations in words that may be considered a spelling mistake, I'm not insulting anyone, to make that clear.
Also, I think a lot (see, two words) of people do make honest mistakes, but it isn't an excuse not to quickly scan it for errors, no need to do an in depth proofread/spellcheck like it was a term paper, just so that people can understand it.
And I live in Canada, so I don't think the US is superior to any country in regards to 'who is better'.
Seriously, if I ever see someone typing 'u' or 'ur' or any other witless contraction, something inside me snaps. Try as I might, I tend to assume that the person is an idiot, and to treat anything else they type with less respect than if they had simply pressed a few more keys. It doesn't take that much more effort, people. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i feel your pain
SADFACE
<span style='color:white'>Be nice.</span>
great vocabulary, crapy spelling...
my spelling is so bad spell check cannt make heads or tails of most of the words i cannt spell.
to make matters worse i lived in two contrys (been to more schools than i can remeber) and tend to place words in the wrong order.
sometimes it takes me more than 5 min to make a post (trying to pick the right words and trying to make sure it makes some sence)
its not good for me because i cannt say what i mean well and its not for you trying to understand.
but i try...
now <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo--> grammer nazi <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
jk...
i understand your pain
edit...
is there a "i talk. it types" program that would work for posting on the forums?
oh wate never mind... i forgot distibuting programs is against the rules here.
But i have to agree with the Nazis on this one. A forum isn't like IRC or some IM program. You have all the time you need to type, lay out, spell check and post each post that you make. Again, as many people have said, i feel this only applies to those of us who have grown up speaking English as a first language, for quite obvious reasons.
The thing that bugs me more, however, is not simple typos or poor spelling, but those whom are quite evidently too lazy to type "you" as opposed to "u". I mean, come on, will 3 letters kill you? I mean, heaven forbid using that keyboard full of all the letters you can imagine being <i>put to use</i>!
My biggest peeve with "txt speak" is the phrase "ur". Ok, so 2 letters there, "u" and "r", phonetically "you" and "are". When these letters are used independantly by lazy bastards they replace the aformentioned words. But put them together and you get "your", for some bizarre reason. I read it and see "ur" as "you are", but the grammatically <span style='color:white'>Yet another victim to Nems 'Get another damn swearword!' campaign.</span> people that use it see it as a fitting replacement for "you're" and "your".
"sms speak" was created because when typing an sms on a cell phone you have either little time or little space to convey your message, or both, and it's perfectly acceptable in that situation to use it. But this is a forum where you have unlimited time to make your post and you have nigh-on unlimited space to write your message. Please, for the love of all that is holy, <b>use it</b>.
(Wow, they've actually made the forum automatically fix "ho.var" and "scor.pian")
That aside, atrocious spelling and grammar, as well as poorly thought out posts and malformed sentences are a well documented phenomenon in gaming societies, defined explicitly by John Gabriel's <a href='http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-03-19' target='_blank'>Greater Internet ******* Theory.</a>
Moreover, it seems that the greater the popularity of any game, the more common they become. Observe the <a href='http://www.battle.net/forums.shtml' target='_blank'>official Blizzard forums.</a>
So as much as you may hate them, their absence would represent an even more tragic occurance.
Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr.
The first one was already posted. The second one is there to contradict the first one.
Damn the world.... it does NOT hurt to use the extra letters, they put them there for a reason. Honestly they should make the forum respell things like 'teh' or 't3h' to 'the', just for the stupid ones out there....
Ha.
At least put periods.
v_v
And I still hate every single one of you who kept endlessly moaning about my small text.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>I'm writing this sentence small just to annoy you. Like them apples?</span>
Use it.
Amazing that ****wad isn't already in the filters. I'll have to go fix that.
Mind explaining how that example is in any way related to a great joke? Honestly, I find the whole issue and the constant reminders of it to be pathetic. I appreciate a good laugh as much as anyone, but that thread is not funny. It's like laughing at disabled people. And anyone who does that can, quite frankly, get bent.
Oh, and a bad joke (which is what that thread has become) doesn't become more fun just because you repeat it. Try going to the Swirve Utopia forums and suggest "Frigates" (with a wink) to be implemented in the B&S forum. If you don't get banned, you'll at least be unable to find the thread soon enough.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>I'm writing this sentence small just to annoy you. Like them apples?</span> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Actually, I would say that your small text was more annoying than most people's bad spelling/grammar. That sentence wasn't annoying, but a whole paragraph of it was.
Here's an example of a post that falls into the "retarded" category (a random thread from the CS forums):
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yo dawg dat was a bad idea yall.
you gotta sit back and chill.
dat move was not smooth.
werd!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I would translate this into English, but frankly I have no clue what he's trying to say, if anything. I checked to see if it related to any of the previous posts, but no, it didn't.
A second random thread:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->plz post some tomato websites u can get them on for ppl that r interested
thnx<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This was in regard to getting free CS CD keys. First of all, how many times do people have to be told not to post illegal stuff on game forums? Secondly, what, may I ask, is a "tomato website". Thirdly... get a freakin dictionary. Either that, or basic grade 1 English skills.
This isn't designed to make fun of CS players (aside from the ones who made these posts), just that I didn't want to post anything from the NS forums because the posts I found were too recognizable.
Edit: Removed name of second poster, despite the fact that the name itself was misspelled.
must be because i'm left handed (left handed people are the only ones their right mind anyway. for thouse that don't know the right half of the brain controls the left side of the body and the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body. get the joke?).
<!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
crad cniyrrag = a name?
...a simple, mechanical revision of internal characters appears sufficient to confuse the everyday onlooker.
Woa. I read it fluently till that sentence, then was totally thrown by "mechanical revision of internal characters". Wierd stuff, psychology.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
Maverick102
Who cares about spelling, If you can make it out it's fine
<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What if some people can make it out, and some people can't? The whole POINT of having a language is so that EVERYONE can use it and understand it. If ppl understood vague gestures and drawings perfectly, this post would be a few random squiggles of coloured lines, possibly with some waving and random thrusts.
IMO, it's simply unpatriotic to shorten and abbreviate words at an excessive level. In George Orwell's distopian novel "1984", there is a new language created ("Newspeak") that shortens all words and removes all negatives. ("bad" becomes "nogod", awful becomes "doublenogoodplus".) This is understandable, (despite not actually being an abreviation,) but it murders the language.
We would not like to live in a society where we could not express ourselves in the way we can now, so why degenerate the language and so lead to that eventual scenario.
<!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Mind explaining how that example is in any way related to a great joke? Honestly, I find the whole issue and the constant reminders of it to be pathetic. I appreciate a good laugh as much as anyone, but that thread is not funny. It's like laughing at disabled people. And anyone who does that can, quite frankly, get bent.
Oh, and a bad joke (which is what that thread has become) doesn't become more fun just because you repeat it. Try going to the Swirve Utopia forums and suggest "Frigates" (with a wink) to be implemented in the B&S forum. If you don't get banned, you'll at least be unable to find the thread soon enough. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh noes, it's a humour feinschmecker! I am your humble servant, oh great lord of
all that is funny! Ever thought of the idea that I may have just used it as an
example, since that's a rather famous joke?
It's amazing how everyone (well except mr. feinschmecker over there) fails to see
that this entire topic is a joke. Especially considering that every single forum on
the face of the Internet has at least one of these, and yet it does nothing to
improve the general language skill on these forums.
Let people be idiots if they want to, it's much easier to write off whatever they
have to say (which may or may not be sensible) as idiocy that way.
A lot of the time it's just type-os anyways (from when I see it)
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It's not 'revision' it's 'inversion'. That should be the only clue you need to be able to read it perfectly now. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->